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Greenhouse and Stove Plants. 
CHOROZEMA, 
For propagation and cultivation, see 
Ferns, general details of culture. 
STOVE SPECIES. 
C. farinosa. East Indies. 
C. hirta Ellisiana. South Africa. 
C. pulveracea. Mexico. 
GREENHOUSE SPECIES. 
C. elegans. Tropical America. 
CO. fragrans. Madeira. 
C. frigida. South America. 
C. lendigera. Spain. 
C. profusa. 
C. pulchella. 
C. tenuifolia. Ceylon. 
CHIRITA. 
Low-growing Gesnerads, that take up 
little room. They are very effective when 
in flower, and suitable for standing on the 
front stage of a stove or intermediate house. 
C. sinensis, and its variegated form C. 
sinensis variegata, will succeed in a warm 
greenhouse. They require the same treat- 
ment as advised for Gloxinias, which see. 
The undermentioned are pretty kinds: — 
C. Moon. Has blue, or purple, and 
yellow flowers, produced in summer. A 
native of Ceylon. 
C. sinensis. Flowers lilac; blooms in 
summer. From China. 
C. sinensis variegata. 
A variegated form 
of the last-named. 
CHOISYA TERNATA. 
An evergreen shrub, all but hardy in 
the south of the kingdom, but worth a 
place in the greenhouse. It produces large, 
many-flowered, somewhat lax heads of 
white flowers from the points of the shoots, 
the individual blooms are in shape like 
those of an Ixora, but longer and larger ; 
they are sweet-scented. It can be in- 
ereased by shoot cuttings put in during 
either spring or autumn, and treated in the 
way required by other shrubs of partially 
hardy nature. Introduced from Mexico. 
CHOROZEMA. 
These are greenhouse plants, and all 
natives of New Holland or New South 
Wales ; the brilliant coloured blossoms of 
the varieties most generally found in 
cultivation render them striking objects 
when in flower. Their peculiar spiny, 
holly-like leaves (large for such slender- 
wooded plants) give them a very distinct 
appearance, and render them desirable in 
contrast with the more ordinary forms 
usually met with in hardwooded plants. 
There is also very great difference in their 
general habit, from the comparatively 
weak-growing C. Henchmannii, the some- 
what bushy C. varium nanum, to the strong 
free-growing C. Lawrenceanum and C. 
varium Chandlerii. The two latter varieties 
frequently push shoots 4 or 5 feet in length 
in one season, and their vigorous growth 
adapts them either for training bush 
fashion, as specimens, or for greenhouse 
or conservatory climbers. In the latter 
position they look well, not taken up the 
roof, but trained to wires between the 
upright sashes ; here they should not be 
kept tied or stopped in too closely, but 
simply attached to the wires or trellis- 
work for support, and allowed to droop 
loosely down. They will continue to 
flower through the winter and spring 
months most profusely if well managed. 
But here they should not be planted out 
in the borders, as they sometimes are, 
among plants of much larger growth and 
greater rooting powers, that rob such things 
as these of their due share of nutriment, 
and thereby reduce their existence to a 
mere struggle for life, which quickly ends 
in the weakest succumbing. In situations 
such as those under consideration, they 
should be grown in pots, in the way de- 
scribed further on, for trained specimens, 
the difference in their general treatment 
principally consisting in their being en- 
couraged to make as much growth as 
possible without much stopping. 
In the selection of these and other small 
hardwooded plants, for growing on, great 
care should be taken that they are perfectly 
free from scale insects. Even the least 
trace of these most objectionable pests 
should at once suffice to condemn any 
plant, however strong and healthy in other 
respects ; for although it is possible by 
perseverance to completely destroy the 
insects, it is always done with more or less 
injury to the plants, and the labour it 
involves costs more than the value of com- 
paratively cheap plants. All the varieties, 
except C. Henchmannii, will succeed in 
either peat or loam, or a mixture of both ; 
yet we prefer peat where it can be had 
good, with plenty of vegetable fibre in it. 
These plants are quick growers, and con- 
sequently will bear more liberal treatment 
as to root-room than most hard-wooded 
subjects. Chorozemas strike readily from 
shoot cuttings ; these should be taken off 
with a heel when in a half-ripened condi- 
tion, such as obtainable about midsummer. 
Put several together in 6 or 7 inch pots, 
keep close, moist, shaded, and under a bell 
glass or in a propagating frame in an inter- 
